Rickmers Holding AG

itelligence had an excellent understanding of HANA technology. It had complete, 360-degree answers for both technical and application-specific issues.

René Teichmann, CIO, Rickmers Holding

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The Rickmers Group is a leading international service provider in the maritime transport sector and a containership owner with a global blue chip customer base. Their business activities cover a broad range of shipping and logistics supply chain services, such as owning and chartering vessels, providing in-house as well as third-party commercial and technical shipmanagement services, and transporting breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargoes via our liner service.

Herausforderungen und Vorteile

Challenges

Long run-times for analyses in SAP Business Warehouse 7.0 on MaxDB

Benefits

Quick display of analysis results

Quick display of analysis results

Increased productivity for reporting and controlling

Always up-to-date data thanks to real-time synchronization

Improved performance in all areas, in some cases by a factor of 200

Solutions

Upgrade to SAP BW 7.4 on HANA

Dual-stack split (separate ABAP and Java Stack)

Upgrade and migration to HANA in one step using the SAP Data Migration Option (DMO)

Hosting at an itelligence data center

Rickmers Holding AG, Hamburg, Germany

With SAP business warehouse powered by SAP HANA, it’ll be smooth sailing

Smarter, Simpler and More Efficient

The Rickmers Group has always stood for reliability and quality. To maintain its sterling reputation, the company enlisted help from itelligence AG to upgrade its existing SAP Business Warehouse from 7.0 to 7.4 – and did this on SAP HANA, of course!

The Business Warehouse is an essential tool for the Rickmers Group’s day-to-day business activities and strategic management. Prior to the upgrade, Rickmers struggled with long run-times for analyses. First, the itelligence team separated the ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) and Java Stacks, a dual-stack split, as a necessary step for migrating data to a HANA database. Then it was time to perform the upgrade – at the same time as the migration from an SAP MaxDB to the SAP HANA database. For this step, the itelligence team used the SAP tool Data Migration Option (DMO). The advantage of this method is that two activities can be performed simultaneously. This means significantly less effort and no time-consuming, repetitive testing
by the project team.

With this simplified method, Rickmers was able to quickly improve its performance. Demanding analysis and planning scenarios with unforeseeable query types, large data volumes, high query frequency and complex calculations can now be processed efficiently. With its set of administration tools, the new SAP Business Warehouse on SAP HANA simplifies administration and infrastructure. By successfully upgrading its system, Rickmers is also on track for its next objective: reporting via SAP BusinessObjects (BO).

Rösler can now carry out fast, high-quality and detailed analysis, and use ERP to manage centralized processes in a more agile and efficient way. It takes timeconsuming routine tasks off employees’ hands, leaving them to concentrate on innovation.

With SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Asaleo Care can carry out forecasts and planning significantly faster and more flexibly than before. The team is able to simulate a great number of financial scenarios in less time, even with very large volumes of data.